Probablemente pocos fen?menos en la historia hayan suscitado tanta atenci?n como la llamada Guerra de Independencia espa?ola. La historiograf?a sobre el tema es muy abundante y re?ne estudios que han hecho de la historia de la cultura pol?tica su campo predilecto de curiosidad. En esta perspectiva, los catecismos pol?ticos han sido objeto de atenci?n en reiteradas ocasiones. Sin embargo, el tema se presenta como un interesante campo de desarrollo que todav?a tiene mucho por explotar. El presente art?culo se propone analizar los catecismos pol?ticos que se publicaron en la Monarqu?a en el periodo que va entre 1808 y 1814. Planteamos que los mismos se transformaron durante este tiempo de crisis mon?rquica en efectivos instrumentos de adoctrinamiento pol?tico al consolidarse como dispositivos did?cticos por excelencia en el paso de un catecismo civil a un catecismo pol?tico. En el marco de la historia de la cultura pol?tica, el texto aborda el an?lisis de diferentes catecismos pol?ticos publicados en el contexto de la Guerra de Independencia.

Probably few phenomena in history have drawn as much attention as the so-called Spanish War of Independence. The historiography on the subject is very abundant and brings together studies that have made the history of political culture their favorite field of curiosity. In this perspective, studies on political catechisms have been the object of attention on repeated occasions. However, the subject is presented as an interesting field of development that still has a lot to exploit. This article aims to analyze the political catechisms that were published in the Spanish Monarchy in the period between 1808 and 1814. We propose that they were transformed during this time of monarchical crisis into effective instruments of political indoctrination by consolidating as didactic devices par excellence in the passage from a civil catechism to a political catechism. In the framework of the history of political culture, the text addresses the analysis of different political catechisms published in the context of the War of Independence.